January 25, 2012

Is Pelosi implying possession of some secret knowledge nugget? The clip is creepy. I feel like the network is teasing us with another woman — after last week's ex-wife interview — who's going to step into the spotlight and say a few words that will supposedly be sufficient to take down Gingrich.

Anyway, what's up with Nancy? In that clip with King, she seems weirdly woozy. I can't tell if she's claiming to have her own personal anti-Newt stink-bomb or if she just feels like she has ESP: "It isn't going to happen... There is something I know."

Now, Newt is saying: "I have a simple challenge for Speaker Pelosi...you know, put up or shut up." Ooh! He really knows how to talk to the ladies. I mean... we've certainly reached a new milestone in the advancement of women.

UPDATE: Pelosi's office says she meant it in the ESP way, not the own personal anti-Newt stink-bomb way.

Newt is saying: "I have a simple challenge for Speaker Pelosi...you know, put up or shut up." Ooh! He really knows how to talk to the ladies. I mean... we've certainly reached a new milestone in the advancement of women.

If queen Nancy wants to play hardball with the boys, she does indeed need to "put up or shut up".

The coy..."I know a secret and plan to tease you with it and destroy your reputation with it", is junior high school girl's bullcrap.

Good for Newt. You have an allegation....bring it on....bitch. (I added that last part, but you know we are all thinking it.)

Nancy already gave us trhe answer. A month ago, she said that if Neewt were nominated, she had access to the thousand pages of House Ethics committee dirt on him. (she was on the committee back in the 90's)

When everybody pointed out that those files were confidential and discussion of them was a ethics death sentence for her, she claimed folks had missunderstood her comments

Could not find the video. apparently it was a press interview with TPM. He're the quote from "The Hill"

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff."

If I had to guess, I'd say she's trying to figure out a way to sneak something out of those records without getting charged for doing it. Or else hoping this "I'm threatening it but not actually saying it" crap will cause a problem.

"Ooh! He really knows how to talk to the ladies. I mean... we've certainly reached a new milestone in the advancement of women."

I don't get this. Feminists demand an equal footing with men in all things that count, but still want an unequal Victorian social deference to prevail? Is this not a case of wanting to have the cake as well as eat it?

Pelosi kept returning to that same creepy, fake smile throughout the interview. Shudder.

Clearly, she wanted to appear like the cat who swallowed the canary.

In her mind, I think she was actually trying to promote Gingrich's chances among what she views as the ya-hoos voting in the Republican primaries, in much the same manner her obsequious interviewer, John King, had a day before.

In her mind, I think she was actually trying to promote Gingrich's chances among what she views as the ya-hoos voting in the Republican primaries, in much the same manner her obsequious interviewer, John King, had a day before.

1/25/12 10:08 AM

EDH they are going to wake up the day after the election in stunned disbelief.

"She will do it after he is nominated to ensure a Obama victory. Why would she do it now?"

But then, why is she threatening now?

Because Mittens is/was the candidate chosen by the media for Obama to run against. The campaign would have been the same old same old playground with comfortable rules and planned attacks. Mitt is the candidate that they WANT to run against.

Newt is a wild card and scares the pants off of the establishment elites, both Dems and Repubs. They don't know how to respond because of the populist and somewhat Jacksonian nature of the campaign.

They (the elites) had a similar problem with Palin, but solved it by conducting a virutal gang rape of Palin and purposeful destruction of her family while the Republican elites stood by and let it happen and even helped out. She fought back as best she could but eventually family and self preservation won out.

Newt on the other hand is more able to fight back and counter attack. They don't know how to handle this since it isn't in their tried and true playbook

Pelosi is engaging in that all time favorite Dem strategy which has to run in co-dependency with the Dem owned Media:You announce a SERIOUS charge has been made against a Repubbie, or it is rumored to be made soon.

That's it. No charge is ever really made that says he did anything, and then after several years the nonsense is dropped

Then for the next 10 to 30 years you repeat in every story about the Repubbie that there was once a scandal about that him being accused of doing a SERIOUS thing, you all remember that don't you. It was a SERIOUS charge.

But seriously, she has referred in the past to having copies of the extensive personal info that Newt was forced to give the ethics committee under seal. Never mind that this itself would be an ethics violation big enough to get her expelled from Congress (and would also destroy the Ethics Committee in the process). Hell, even having this info in her possession ought to get her expelled. Why isn't the House demanding she return all copies of this data?

"He really knows how to talk to the ladies. I mean... we've certainly reached a new milestone in the advancement of women."I am missing whatever, if anything, is supposed to tip me off that this comment is sarcastic. Rather, it looks like a knee-jerk feminist reaction to a quite proper statement made to a lying sack of liberal dung who happens, we are told, to be female.

I am against corporal punishment on religious grounds, but I might make an exception for a traitor, and the Democrat party as it is led now, by Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, are treading on traitorous grounds.(so are a lot of R's too, in my book)

No one noticed when Queen Nancy hauled that ginormous gavel into the congress on her first day,(envy much?)but since her exile into the wilderness her screeching equals that of a banshee, or the witch that she closely resembles.

Ever notice how the most hateful people live long lives, like this skank?

Between her "pass it to know what's in it", to her insider trading, to her demanding a bigger jet so she didn't have to refuel in KC, Pelosi epitomizes what is wrong with American Government. I hate to be this way, but if she would just die we'd be a better country.

Then there's this chart — which purports to show that Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush left us with public debt far greater than any other recent presidents including Barack Obama — that is still floating around Facebook (I just encountered it there yesterday), collecting raving comments from liberals and more than 23,000 shares at this point.

The Washington Post's Fact Checker, in this article “A bogus chart on Obama and the debt gets a new lease on life,” terms this piece of pure deception a “Four-Pinocchio whopper,“ noting that not only are the numbers for Obama and GWB flat-out wrong, but the presentation of the data is seriously misleading. Moreover, the information (such as it is), which is alleged to come from the “Treasury Department,” was actually “originally created by the office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi [and] is as phony as a three-dollar bill.”

The WP article goes on to say:

“If the chart were recast to show how much the debt went up as a percentage of GDP, it would look pretty bad for Obama after not even three years in office. In fact, Obama does almost twice as poorly as Reagan — and four times worse than George W. Bush.”

"She will do it after he is nominated to ensure a Obama victory. Why would she do it now?"

Pelosi has already made her announcement. Her little mysterious jibe that she knows something was it. Any more she says later will only work against the democrats and help Newt (should he be the nominee). Whatever it is she thinks she has would come out flat and appear contrived with the sole purpose of interfering with a Presidential election. It will play into Newt's strengths and message at that point.

"I have a simple challenge for Speaker Pelosi...you know, put up or shut up."

I missed what was wrong with this. Oh. I see the Professor was thinking "put 'em up" as in dukes - fists. No, no.

I took it as "put up the information" or shut up. But yes, I suppose in the old days, "put up" could refer to aggressive physical confrontation, though there are hardly any examples of that in recent decades.

Either way, as a woman I don't take offense.

If I were ever (note that in my wildest imagination I can't think of a situation I would do this in) going to pull some childish nyah-nyah-nyah stunt like this in public, it comes with the territory to expect it to be confronted. Bluntly.

And if it *was* something significant, I would expect that someone with the grace and subtlety of Nancy Pelosi {/s} would, from her deepest desire for Americans to be well informed before they vote for this man {/s/s}, let the world know, verbally and with video if possible, as opposed to writing.

I mean, you wouldn't want to vote for the guy and have to read the info later, to find out you'd been screwed, would you?

Maybe when Newt asked Marianne for a threesome he was just doing it to get his wife and his paramour to break up with him. Like George Costanza did on Seinfeld; except in George's case his girlfriend and 'torrid love affair' were down with the threesome, if it meant not breaking up with George.

Pelosi was never bright and is probably getting stupider as she ages. She spent a year of her life investigating Newt and remembers that there was a lot of dirt. When questioned about Newt, she stupidly said what she knew to be true.

Once she had a chance to reflect and talked to other, smarter Dems, she backed off since the Dems want Newt to get the GOP nomination.

Anybody who thinks all the ethics investigation files won't surface if Newt gets the GOP nomination is unaware of Dem SOP. It is in the best interest of the GOP that those files surface asap so GOP voters are aware of the contents before they vote in primaries.

The Dems will be thrilled if Newt is nominated. The idea that Dems are afraid of Newt is ludicrous.

They (the elites) had a similar problem with Palin, but solved it by conducting a virutal gang rape of Palin and purposeful destruction of her family while the Republican elites stood by and let it happen and even helped out.

That would include those who currently went on to join the Romney camp, which is where much of the trashing of Palin from 2009-10 originated.

How can that be if Newt is such an anti-conservative, like the Romney crowd wants you to believe?

In truth, the Dems will be thrilled because they hate Newt with a passion and it will give them the opportunity to do what they do best -- hate -- because they know him to be not only ideologically conservative (even with occasional professorial musings) but someone who has kicked their asses in the past and will do so again.

Meanwhile, they will also happy with Romney, not so much in order to bash him, but because even if he were to win, he is a squish who does not threaten them and will even occasionally lend them a hand to implement leftist policies.

Rick said..."He really knows how to talk to the ladies. I mean... we've certainly reached a new milestone in the advancement of women."I am missing whatever, if anything, is supposed to tip me off that this comment is sarcastic.

The tip off is Althouse's long standing and consistent position that women who seek equality should not also be afforded unusual protections from the rough and tumble of the world.

It's what I tried to teach my daughters, who have absorbed the idea quite well. (Most likely they would have figured it out on their own.)

Steve Koch:It is in the best interest of the GOP that those files surface asap so GOP voters are aware of the contents before they vote in primaries.

So why is it in Pelosi's interests to give people like you ammunition against Newt? Stupid witch, as some have suggested?

I don't think she is that stupid, and I think she is a conniving bitch. I don't think she wants to face Newt. The calculus is coming out now as the press is beginning to drum up the anti-Newt message to get the person they really want elected, Romney.